SAN値さがるぞぉぉぉぉー！

May 29, 2014 4:56 AM

Yamada Gouki (山田剛毅), aka goking, has been illustrating creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos and similar horrors in an ukiyo-e style: Cyaegha, Igolnaku, The Thing That Plays with Fate, Cthonian, Byakhee, and would like to wish you a very Merry Fishmas from Innsmouth. You can find more illustrations on his Twitter or his blog, 2D6.

As a tangentially-related bonus, here's some Lovecraftian text art for your favorite 2ch variant.

posted by 23 (11 comments total)

Thanks for the unutterable URLs to indescribable images. Incidentally, someone needs to write a contemporary Lovecraftian short story entitled "The Kawaii of Cthulhu".
posted by Doktor Zed at 6:03 AM on May 29, 2014

someone needs to write a contemporary Lovecraftian short story entitled "The Kawaii of Cthulhu".

About that....
posted by sukeban at 6:14 AM on May 29, 2014 [2 favorites]

Oh, and I've coveted this Cthulhu doll for years. (It's the 1/6 scale, Barbie-sized dollfie pluses).
posted by sukeban at 6:16 AM on May 29, 2014

i keep pushing money at my monitor but it wont sell picture what happen?
posted by robocop is bleeding at 6:52 AM on May 29, 2014 [1 favorite]

"Igolnaku" is actually our old friend Y'Golonac.

Here's some more. Links are to blog posts containing images instead of directly to images themselves -- you can then click through to the image, or read/Google Translate the text. I did it this way, even though it's a bit inconvenient, so as to avoid separating the image from its context:
Nightgaunt
Vulthoom (Martian overmind plant created by Clark Ashton Smith)
Glaaki (from Ramsey Campbell's Severn Valley)
The Whateley Twins
I think these are related to Quachil Utaus
Father Dagon
Zombie attack
Shub-Niggurath
Maybe an Unseen Servant, deceased?
Lose D10/D100 SAN, it's Azathoth!
Not sure about this one, or this one, or this one, or this one.

Now that's a Cthulhu of a different color!
A variety of beasties done up in a cute style.
I think this is HPL himself.

There may be more, I only went a few pages back in his archives.
posted by JHarris at 7:04 AM on May 29, 2014 [2 favorites]

(Argh, the middle two "this one" links are broken, and they show up in the comment edit form as a mass of hard-to-fix Unicode encodes, too much to fix in five minutes, so I'm going to leave them broken.)
posted by JHarris at 7:05 AM on May 29, 2014

Also want to say, times like this, I really miss Artw.
posted by JHarris at 7:06 AM on May 29, 2014 [4 favorites]

Oh, and because I'm still tickled by it (as in by a nightgaunt): Tales of the Plush Cthulhu.
posted by JHarris at 7:08 AM on May 29, 2014

That byakhee is a nightgaunt. People make that error all the time in Providence. The trick is to look for the face.
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:32 AM on May 29, 2014 [2 favorites]

In a less pedantic mode, these are very pretty.
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:37 AM on May 29, 2014

The U.S. Government Inflicted Horrible Atrocities On Cthulhu's Followers
posted by homunculus at 8:37 PM on June 5, 2014 [1 favorite]